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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things

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